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# Chris Pratt and Anna Faris Went Off-Script In the Cutest Way Possible

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## Melissa Locker


Jan 4, 2017 4:06 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


Jan 4, 2017 4:06 PM UTC

The rumors are true—Chris Pratt can’t stop [kissing his co-star](http://time.com/4180529/jennifer-lawrence-chris-pratt-movie-romance/?iid=sr-link3). Luckily, his co-star is wife Anna Faris.

The _Passengers_ star made a [guest appearance on the set of _Mom_](http://time.com/4541222/chris-pratt-anna-faris-on-mom/?iid=sr-link1), the hit CBS sitcom that Faris stars in with Allison Janney. Per the script, Pratt had to woo Faris’s character, Christy, with a Kenny Rogers tune. Thanks to the dulcet tones of the Rogers song “Lady”, Pratt’s character would then score a kiss from Christy.

“I played it, then we kissed,” Pratt told [Vanity Fair](http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/01/chris-pratt-cover-story) in an interview. That’s when things went off script, though: “Normally, when you do a kissing scene, it’s awkward, and when it’s done you say, ‘Are you O.K.?’,” said Pratt. “But this was different. After they yelled ‘Cut,’ we laughed and just kept on kissing.”

It was business as usual for the[ power couple](http://time.com/3318181/anna-faris-conan-obrien/?iid=sr-link5) who met playing love interests in the film _Take Me Home Tonight_.

\[H/T [Vanity Fair](http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/01/chris-pratt-cover-story)\]

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